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28 days to transforming your body, mind and spirit the Shaolin kung fu way
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Learn the secrets of the 1,500-year-old Shaolin kung fu tradition from a 34th generation Shaolin warrior monk. In a loft space in Manhattan, Sifu (Master) Shi Yan Ming trains men and women of all ages and body types in the fundamentals of kung fu. Sifu is a fighting monk hailing from China’s Shaolin Temple, the birthplace of Ch’an Buddhism and a Mecca for all martial arts. A world-renowned master of the martial arts, he has developed a kung fu-based workout programme that is unsurpassed for getting the body and mind into ‘fighting trim’ shape. Now Sifu Shi Yan Ming shares the secrets of the Shaolin in The Shaolin Workout. The book features a four-week programme of physical and mental training that offers the reader the chance to transform their body, mind and spirit. As well as providing a step-by-step beginner’s course in kung fu, Sifu describes his philosophy in daily lessons that are pertinent to other areas of life, such as work, relationships and family.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
To complete all of the exercises in this book takes @30-35 minutes a day.The sifu calls them active meditations, as while you are training your body, you are training the mind.They are best done (in my opinion)first thing in the morning, leaving you nice and loose to face the day.There are also daily meditations in the book to help you focus mentally. One of my favourites is translated as "Stay loose in everything I do", which is meant to help you focus on not letting external factors influence your feelings, moods etc.Good, detailed instructions and quality photographs, mean that you can see exactly how to do each movement.I judge books by the quality of information in them, and how much enjoyment I get out of them.This book scores top marks in both those catagories
63 of 64 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a superb book. The moves are all demonstrated step by step by colour photographs of the Sifu. Its split into 28 lessons, the first 9 being pure stretching exercises which even by themselves are excellent. The remainder cover basic kung fu movements. There is no doubt the physical and mental benefits of the exercises are fantastic. I always look forward to exercising using this book. I also like the writing style of the Sifu who peppers the exercise descriptions with lots of inspiring comments. A massive bonus is the meditation pages. There is one after each lesson and it is basically a page of bhuddist wisdom on how to "polish" yourself and your life. I find these particularly inspiring and uplifting.
52 of 54 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Absolutely life changing, the exercises are so simple and when completed on a daily basis are transforming even for some one who has practiced martial arts for twenty years.
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shaolin realism
The best kung fu instruction manual available. contentious though this may seem,this book will teach you as much about kung fu as any book can and still be real. Read more
Published 25 days ago by kev
Very difficult to understand and potentially dangerous, not for...
I have gotten up to session 8 now. Session 6 took me like a week to figure out how many exercises there actually are and what I need to do (I am still not entirely sure now). Read more
Published 11 months ago by Jason Tootle
preperation to Kung Fu
This is a really good book and although it doesnt cover a huge amount of "kung Fu" I wouldnt definatly recomend it to anyone just starting out. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Sabraer
Shaolin Workout
An interesting book by an interesting martial artist. Lots off good advice and the meditations are often quite thought provoking. Read more
Published 15 months ago by DiamondDave
The Shaolin Workout: 28 Days to Transforming Your ...
What a brilliant book! Presented in easy to assimilate chapters, in a language that is full of humour and encouragment! Read more
Published 16 months ago by krikakri
The Shaolin Workout
This is an excellent book which provides a structured and progressive exercise and flexibility program based on Shaolin kung-fu body conditioning (stretching & flexibility... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. V. Martins
sifu72
i found this book to be very informative and easy to understand, i used this product along with my regular training and noticed great results.
Published 18 months ago by glyn
Very good ,but why no DVD with it?
I have been working with this book for
2 years now,im still only half way through
but i try to practise what
i know regularly and its been a very good... Read more
2 years now,im still only half way through
but i try to practise what
i know regularly and its been a very good... Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2009 by spike
lovely colourful book... content is dubious
Beautifully illustrated, lots of lovely colour photos of a monk-type person doing monk-type meditative stretching... Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2009 by Doctor D
Alright
The book is good....however its all stretches and not really anything else, if you want tutorials of moves and attacks i would advise looking for another book besides this one. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2009 by Tom Young
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